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3 August 1910 — Axenstein | |
Wednesday. 3rd August [1910]. Mr Alfred Bülow (brother of the late Chancellor & now German Minister at Berne) met us at the Lucerne station with a fine carriage & pair & drove Da Laura & me to Hotel National where we got an excellent & refreshing breakfast of tea & bread & butter & then drove us back to the station & we took the train for Brunnen. There again we changed from the train to the funicular railway wh took us up the hill to Axenstein which is over the Lake of Lucerne. Passing by Axenfels & Morsbach we soon got to our destination. We found that owing to our having changed the date of our arrival we could not get good rooms but were obliged to take indifferent ones for the moment. We rested, dressed & came down to lunch in the table d’hote room & there at once found the Dss of Sermoneta at a table by herself. She was soon persuaded to join ours. Her daughter Bss Grenier is here also but not well & lunched upstairs. Dear Ada Sermoneta is an intimate friend of Da Lauras & at Rome live next door to each other. She has always been a kind friend to me & I have an admiration for her goodness & cleverness. She was a great beauty when young & is still very nice looking—& was never spoilt by admiration—is a splendid wife & mother & immensely respected. She dined with us again in the evening & sat with us in the hall in the evening where a band was playing. It had been fine when we arrived but a thick mist & heavy rain came on & a wet night. | |
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